ASCAP is a membership organization providing licensing and distribution representation and distributes royalties for copyrighted works specifically for composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers.

Art Farm’s mission is to support artistic vision, which may be impractical, obscure, and independent of commercial recognition—where failing is no less welcomed than succeeding. To offer artists, writers, performers, and others: studios, time, and resources for pursuing their range of expression, for experimenting, for developing projects, but most of all, for distilling the promise and potential of their creative enterprise, while working and living in a rural environment. They offer an artist and writer residency.

Helping musicians and music entrepreneurs create sustainable careers. It offers research and articles on a variety music and business careers including an online help center, forums and videos pertaining to all aspects of the music business.

Making the art world accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

Artsy.net is a resource for students, teachers, art enthusiasts, curators and collectors. Artsy offers a variety of additional ways to learn about art and design, and its Art Genome Project maps the characteristics (“genes” as they call them) that connect artists, artworks, architecture, and design objects across history. There are currently over 1,000 characteristics in The Art Genome Project, including art historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities.

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art offers residencies and exhibition opportunities. Their commitment to the belief that exceptional talent deserves to be supported is "achieved by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and a monthly stipend to artists who are awarded residencies. These artists come from around the world to work within a supportive community of like-minded people."

For 25 years, Big Thought has provided creative learning programs that help kids imagine possibilities, excel academically and contribute to their communities. Big Thought brings together a wealth of resources to deliver enriched learning and active engagement opportunities for children and families in the classroom, home and community. They are driven by their mission — to make imagination a part of everyday learning. Teaching artists can review their section for educators as well as their research and assessment materials.

Creating Quality is a program of Big Thought. It is a tool designed to specifically address assessment of arts education programming. Creating Quality is a continuous process with at least four different entry points. Your current objectives and resources will determine where you can best jump into this work. Once you get started you’ll find the process provides a solid framework for understanding the current strengths and weaknesses of teaching and learning in your community, along with resources for gathering and sustaining support from partners and stakeholders to make quality improvement happen. The four entry points are engage, define, assess and advance.

The Fine Arts Work Center, a non-profit enterprise, is devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoration of the year-round vitality of the historic art colony of Provincetown. Today the Fine Arts Work Center is a leading long-term residency program in the country for emerging artists and writers.

Offers opportunities for the study and practice of creative writing and literary analysis to participants around the world. The courses are funded by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the University of Iowa. MOOCs are available to anyone who wishes to enroll. There is no cost to participants, and there are no application requirements. Upcoming classes include How Writers Write Poetry, and How Writers Write Fiction. Visit website for additional details.

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival offers 138 week-long or weekend workshops for writers working from early June through the month of July. Courses are based on the workshop model, and are appropriate for all skill levels. For a complete schedule, visit http://www.iowasummerwritingfestival.org/.

The Mattress Factory is a contemporary art museum that houses permanent collections as well as installations created by resident artists in a renovated industrial building. "The Mattress Factory’s artistic program is focused on the commission, presentation and collection of new site-specific installations that are developed in residency."

The McColl Center for Visual Art is a "nationally acclaimed contemporary art center dedicated to connecting art and artists with the community." Its artists in residence program provides its artists with time to research and develop work, while engaging communities through open studios and other programs of the center.

Advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries, domestically through the MPAA and internationally through the MPA. Research, educational opportunities, information on piracy and outreach resources are available online. (Chapters located in Washington D.C., New York and Los Angeles).

A nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and digital arts.